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CONTENTS  FOR  JANUARY,  1904. 

Frontispiece.    Cyrus  Cuneo 258 

Poverty  in  the  World's  Greatest  Metropolis.    Illustrated. 

LADY  HENRY  SOMERSET 259 

The  Diary  of  King  Edward  Vlll. 

EDITED  BY  267 

The  Oldest  Republic  in  the  World.    iiiustr<ite<t. 

HERBERT  S.  STONE 271 

The  Passing  of  Love,   (poem.) 

^  THEODOSIA  GARRISON 278 

The  Odd  and  Eccentric  in  the  Drama,    illustrated. 

HJALMAR  HJORTH  BOYESEN,  2d.     279 

Captains  of  Industry.    With  portraits 289 

F.  AUGUSTUS  HEINZE,    CHARLKS  JOSEPH  BONAPABTE,    WILLIAM 
lUINEY   HAKPER. 
WM.  R.  STEWART,  LYNN  ROBY  MEEKINS,  ELLIOTT  FLOWER. 

The  Food  of  the  Gods.      illustrated  by  Cyrus  Cuneo. 

HERBERT  GEORGE  WELLS 299 

The  End  of  an  Idyl,    sara  beaumont  Kennedy 314 

Some  Famous  Hymns  and  Their  Authors,    illustrated. 

LAURA  GROVER  SMITH 321 

Childhood  Through  the  Ages,    illustrated. 

LEO  CLARETIE 329 

Father,  Son  and  Grandson,    illustrated  by  Lester  i{aij}h. 

WILLIAM   R.  LIGHTON 337 

The  Chef  and  the  "  Owl's  Nest."    illustrated  by  Edmund 

Frederick.       CONSTANCE   MAUD 347 

The  Dramatic  History  of  South  America.— Peru  and  the  Pi- 

zarros.    illustrated. 

CYRUS  TOWNSEND  BRADY 355 

Theodor  Mommsen.    iVitu  portrait. 

FREDERIC   WILLIAMS 363 

A  Judicial  Puzzle,    illustrated  by  Frank  Verbeck. 

ELLIOTT  FLOWER 365 

Making  a  Choice  of  a  Profession.— Farming  as  an  Occupa- 
tion. WILLIAM  JENNINGS  BRYAN 369 

Duty.    (POEM.)  JAY  ROGERS  DICKINSON 371 

Men,  Women  and  Events 372 

ELBERT  HUBBARD.  TOM  MASSON,  W^M.  R.  STEWART. 

Great  Events:  Humor  and  Satire.    By  the  World's  Most 
Fain ous  Cartootiists. 


SOME  FAMOUS  HYMNS  AND  THEIR  AUTHORS. 

By  Laura  Grover  Smith. 

ALL  ages  and  all  creeds  have  contributed     paintings  stand  apart  from  the  modern  idea 
to  hymnology.      For   the    most  part,     of  Christian  art.     It  was  Gregory  who  sent 
great   religious    poems    have    been    written     Augustine  to  England,   and  his  choristers, 


under  strong  excitement,  either  individual, 
national  or  ecclesiastical.  In  the  earliest 
days  of  Christianity,  under  the  fire  of  per- 
secution, hymns  were  written,  filled  with 
the  joy  and  exaltation  of  martyrdom  and 
the  gladness  of  the  new  religion. 

The  "Te  Deum, "  the  greatest  of  all 
songs  of  praise,  was  not  in  existence  until 
theyear  A.D.  387.  The  story  runs  that  Saint 
Ambrose  stood 
before  a  Chris- 
tian altar  in 
Milan.  Saint 
Augustine, 
that  most  in- 
teresting con- 
vert to  the  new 
faith,  stood  by 
him;  in  joy  of 
the  latter's  con- 
version. Saint 
Ambrose  bfoke 
forth  into 
thanksgiving, 
' '  We  praise 
Thee,  Oh 
God, "  and 
Saint  Augus- 
tine, inspired 
likewise,  an- 
swered, "All 
the  earth  doth 
worship  Thee, 
the  Father 
Everlasting." 

It  is  told  that 
these    two    men 


THOMAS    MOUKE,     ATIHCIR     (IF  CO.MK,    \  [■.     IHSCO.NSOL AT t, 

E'ER     YE    LANGUISH." 


with  their  plaintive  music,  gained  many 
converts  to  the  new  religion.  Not  only 
did  Gregory  compose  music,  but  he  wrote 
the  words  as  well.  To  him  we  owe  the 
"Veni,  Creator,  spiritus"  ("Come,  Holy 
Ghost,  our  souls  inspire"). 

Saint  John  of  Damascus  was  a  Bishop 
of  the  Greek  Church  in  the  eighth  century, 
lie    was    the   author   of    one    of    our  finest 

Easter  hymns, 
which  has  been 
translated  by 
Doctor  Neale : 

"The    Day    of 

Resurrection, 
Earth  tell  it  out 

abroad, 
The  Passover  of 

gladness, 
The  Passover  of 

God." 

This  same 
good  Bishop, 
Saint  John  of 
Damascus, 
placed  his 
nephew.  Saint 
Stephen,  in  the 
monastery  Mar 
Saba,  which 
stands  on  a 
high  cliff  over- 
hanging the 
valley  of  the 
Ivivcr  Kedron. 
The    cells    and 


sang    alternately    the    verses    of  this    great     chapels    are    cut   in    the   rocks. 


hymn  before  the  altar.  It  is  to-day,  as  it 
has  been  for  centuries,  the  church's  voice 
of  joy  and  praise.  Some  authorities,  how- 
ever, place  the  writing  of  the  "Te  Deum" 
in  the  sixth  century. 

To  Gregory  the  Great,  once  a  Roman 
senator,  later  a  monk,  and  still  later  a  Pope 
of  Rome,  the  world  owes  much  of  the 
beauty  of  devotional  music;    the  Gregorian 


Saint  John  of  Damascus  retired  also  to 
this  monastery  with  his  foster  brother. 
Saint  Cosma,  and  they,  with  Saint  Stephen, 
composed  hymns.  Greatly  loved  is  the 
well-known  hymn  by  Saint  Stephen,  writ- 
ten eleven  centuries  ago: 

"Art  thou  weary,  art  thou  languid, 
Art  thou  sore  distrest  ?  ' ' 

The    "Dies    Ira-"    is    perhaps    the    most 


music,  with  its  monotone,  stands  apart  from     tragic  of  all  hymns,  and  was  written  in  the 
other  church  music,  as  the   early  Christian     thirteenth    century    liy  Thomas   of    Celano. 


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SOME  FAMOUS  HYMNS  AND  THEIR  AUTHORS. 


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si,|:>::?^,:^^ 


CHAKl.E'i    WKSLEV, 
AUTHOR  0F"JF-S('S,  LOVIiR 

OF  MY  sour,." 


Tlicre  have  bien 
many  translations 
which  exist  in  differ- 
ent hvmnals.  The 
best  one  is  by  Doctor 
lions.  His  transhi- 
tion  begins:  "Day 
of  wrath  1  Oh,  day 
of  inourniiiL;' !'"  An- 
other of  the  early 
hymns,      wiitten     in 

Latin     by    Thoodoiph    and    translated    by 

Doctor  Neale,   is: 

"All  glory,  laud  and  honor 
To  thee,  Redeemer  King! 
To  whom  the  lips  of  children 
Made  sweet  hosannas  ring." 

Theodolph  was  the  Bishop  of  Orleans 
about  the  year  800.  He  was  accused  of 
treason  and  was  put  into  prison.      The  King 


lury  wrote  four  of  our  most  beautiful 
hymns.  At  tliat  time  this  monastery  was 
at  the  height  of  its  powers  and  in  it  were 
both  scholarly  men  and  men  of  great 
wealth. 

Bernard  knew  well  the  vices  and  follies 
of  his  day,  and  in  a  satire  upon  them  are 
the  four  religious  poems,  whicdi  hnve  been 
translated,  and  are  rich  treasures  of  English 
hymn-books.      They  are: 

"The  world  is  very  evil, 
The  times  are  waxing  late." 
"For  thee,  O  dear,  dear  cauntry, 
Mine  eyes  their  vigils  keep." 
"Jerusalem    the   Golden,    with    milk    and    honey 
blest." 

"Brief  life  is  here  our  portion." 

For  several  hundred  years  after  this  there 
were  very  few  hymns  written. 


HATH     ADIil'.V    CAiniaJKAL    CHURCH    OK    DISHOP    KKN. 


was  passing  the  prison  one  Palm  Sunday: 
Theodolph  was  looking  through  the  bars 
of  his  cell  windows,  and  as  he  rode  by,  the 
old  Bisho])  sang  the  first  verse  of  this  hymn. 
It  pleased  the  King,  and  he  ordered  it  sung 
on  every  succeeding  Palm  Sunday,  and  also 
released  the  singer  from  jn'ison. 

Bernard  of  Cluny,  an  English  monk  in  a 
French  monastery,  early  in  the  twelfth  ceu- 


"With  the  Reformation  came  also  a  re- 
naissance in  hymn-writing.  Luther  was 
the  first  to  realize  that  music  and  song  were 
valuable  helps  in  religions  warfare.  lie 
called  for  poets  to  write  spiritual  songs  in 
German,  demanding  that  the  "words  be 
quite  plain  and  common,  such  as  the  com- 
mon people  may  understand,  yet  puie  and 
skilfully      handled."       There     are     many 


SOME  FAMOUS  HYMNS  AND   7HE/R  AUTHORS. 


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AUGUSTUS    M.    TOPLAIJV, 
AUTHOR    OF     "ROCK    OF     AGES,    CLEFT   FOR    ME." 


REGINALD    HEBER, 
AUTHOR  OF  "  FROM  GREENLAND'S  ICY  MOUNTAINS." 


translation.s  of  Luther's  hymn,   "Ein  fester  is.,ao  Watts's  childhood  was  spent  in  the 

Burg  ist   unserGott."      The  one  in  com-  midst  of  religious  excitement  which  influ- 

mon  use  is:  enced  his  entire  life.      Plis  father  was  every 

"A  tower  of  strength  our  God  is  still,  now  and  then  put  into  prison  for  holding  to 

A  shield  and  sure  defender."  his  relisious  views,  and  the  mother,  so  the 

The  religious  excitement  and  enthusiasm  old   story-books  tell   us,   would   sit  on    the 

which  prevailed    in  England  at  the  time  of  prison  steps  holding  the  little  Isaac  in  her 

the  Wesleys  inspired  many   hymn- writers,  arms. 

Isaac  Watts  really   belongs  to  the   Wesley         Political  affairs  brightened  when  William 


epoch,  although  he 
was  born  thirty 
years  before  Charles 
Wesley,  who  shares 
with  him  the  distinc- 
tion of  having  writ- 
ten the  largest  num- 
ber of  hymns  in  use 
to-day.  Surely 
Watts  well  earned 
the  epitaph  one  reads 
on  his  tomb: 

"Isaac  Watts,  the 
Father  of  the  Eng- 
lish Ilymn." 

He  was  born  at 
Southampton,  Eng- 
land, and  his  father 
was  a  deacon  of  a 
Congregational 
Church.  These  were 
stormy  days  for  Non- 
conformists,     and 


JOHN    KEBLE,    AUTHOR   OF        THE  CHRISTIAN  YEAR, 
A    COLLECTION    OF     POEMS    AND    HYMNS. 


of  Orange  came  over, 
but  this  poetic  child 
had  imbibed  theol- 
ogy and  religious 
emotion  with  his 
mother's  milk  in  the 
stormy  dnys  of  his 
infancy. 

Walts  never  mar- 
ried. The  woman 
he  loved  jilted  him, 
which  saddened  his 
life;  notwithstanding 
which  his  character 
is  very  lovable  with 
its  sorrow,  pathos  and 
gentleness.  He  loved 
chiklren  dearly,  and 
while  he  was  tutor 
in  Sir  John  Hart- 
upp's  family  he 
wrote  that  sweet  old 
lullaby : 


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SOME  FAMOUS  HYMNS  AND  THEIR  AUTHORS. 


:^^^ 


WM.   COVVPliU,   All  1  H(JK  <lh       ■    1  HEKK   IS  A   FOUNTAIN 
FILLr.n    WITH     BLOOD." 

"Hush,  my  dear,  lie  still  and  slumber." 
Two    other     nursery    rliymes    which    he 
wrote  have  ever  been  used  with  stern  moral 
effect : 

"  Let  dogs  delight  to  bark  and  bite," 
and 

"How  doth  the  little  busy  bee  employ  each  shining 
hour." 

Isaac  'Watts  became  an  Independent  min 
ister.  but  was  ill  so  much  of  his  life  that 
his  good  works  were  chiefly  his  pious  verse, 
lie  had  a  dear  friend,  Sir  Thomas  Abney, 
whom  he  went  to  visit  for  one  week. 
What  Watts  said  of  this  visit  thirty  years 
later  is  characteristic  of  his  simplicity : 
"This  day  thirty  years  I  came  hither  to  the 
house  of  my  good  friend  Sir  Tliomas  Abney 
intending  to  spend  but  one  single  week, 
but  under  his  friendly  roof  I  liave  extended 
my  visit  to  the  length  of  exactly  thirty 
years." 

To  Watts  we  owe  that  great  requiem 
liymii  of  wiiicli  an  English  wiiier  has  said. 
"It  has  been  sung  over  the  graves  of  our 
fathers  for  three  hundred  years" — 

"O  God,  our  help  in  ages  past, 
Our  hope  in  years  to  come." 

The  father  of  the  remarkable  Wesley 
family,  whose  many  children  i)layed  im- 
portant parts  in  the  world's  history,  was 
vicar  of  a  ])arish  in  Epworth,  Lincolnshire. 
Charles  Wesley  was  the  youngest  in  that 
family  of  nineteen  cliildren.  All  the 
Wesley  family  were  given  to   pious  versifi- 


cation,   especially    Charles,     whose    record 
was  six  thousand  hymns. 

Contemporary  with  the  Wesley  family 
was  Augustus  M.  Toplady,  whose  great  gift 
to  hymnology  is  "Rock  of  Ages,  Cleft  for 
Me."  Toplady's  father  was  a  major  in 
the  English  army,  and  from  him  he  doubtless 
inherited  his  impetuous  nature.  When  he 
was  graduatetl  fiom  the  University  of  Dub- 
lin and  signed  his  ordination  papers,  in 
order  to  show  his  extreme  earnestness  and 
devotion,  he  signed  his  name  live  times. 

Toplady  and  the  Wesleys  lived  in  bitter 
times,  and  they  were  lifelong  enemies. 
The  former  wrote  volume  after  volume  of 
controversy,  all  of  which  have  passed  into 
oblivion,  so  far  as  they  concern  our  day, 
and  his  one  immortal  work  is  that  great 
liynin.  It  is  said  that  he  was  walking  in 
the  country  one  day  when  a  great  storm 
arose  and  he  found  shelter  in  the  cleft  of 
a  rock,  and  this  inspired  the  poem. 

The  Doxology  is  the  last  stanza  of  a 
morning  hymn  written  by  Bishop  Ken. 
The  first  stanza  begins: 

"Awake,  my  soul,  and  with  the  sun." 
The  last  stanza  stands  apart  now,  and  of 
it  may  be  said  that  it  is  one  of  the  greatest 
short   hymns   of    praise.        As    it    was  first 
written,   the  Doxology  read: 

"Praise  God  from  whom  all  blessings  flow  ; 

Praise  Him  all  creatures  here  below  ; 

Praise  Him  above,  ye  angelic  host ; 

Praise  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghost." 


ISAAC    WAI  IS,    AUTHOR    OF    '    O    (iOI),    DTK     HFI.P    IN 
AGF.S    PAST." 


SOME  FAMOUS  HYMNS  AND  THEIR  AUTHORS. 


325 


Bishop  Ken's  life,  according  to  ]\Iacau- 
lay,  "approached  as  near  as  human  infirm- 
ity permits  to  the  ideal  perfection  of  Chris- 
tian virtue."  He  was  born  in  163T,  and 
was  graduated  from  New  College,  Oxford. 
His  sister  was  the  wife  of  Izaak  Walton, 
the  gentle  fisherman,  and  with  them  he 
lived.  After  his  college  life,  he  went  to 
Holland  as  chaplain  of  the  Princess  May, 
but  he  criticized  the  immorality  of  the 
court  and  was  sent  back  to  England. 
When  he  was  prebendary  at  Winchester, 
King  Charles  H.  wanted  to  bring  Nell 
Gwynne  to  him,   l)ut  he  declined  to  receive 


sing  his  hymns  to  his  own  music  on  the  lute 
or  the  spinet.  Bishop  Ken's  evening  hymn 
is  as  well  known  as  the  morning  hymn : 

"All  praise  to  Thee,  my  God,  this  night, 
For  all  the  blessings  of  the  light." 

According  to  Bishop  Ken's  own  wish, 
he  was  buried  at  sunrise  at  the  east  end  of 
the  chancel  of  the  church,  and  his  morn- 
ing hymn  was  sung: 

"Awake,  my  soul,  and  with  the  sun 
Thy  daily  stage  of  duty  run." 

What    was    called   the    "Oxford   Move- 


ADDISON  S    W.iLK,    MAGDALEN'    COLLEGE,    OXFORD. 


her.  The  King,  because  he  respected  the 
good  man,  afterward  gave  him  the  bish- 
opric of  Bath.  He  was  imprisoned  in 
the  Tower,  for  he  was  one  of  the  seven 
Bishops  who  refused  to  read  the  Declara- 
tion of  Indulgence.  After  leaving  the 
Tower,  he  was  again  deprived  of  his  see 
and  nothing  was  left  to  him  but  "his 
lute,  Greek  Testament  and  a  sorry  old 
horse."  He  was  the  confessor  of  Charles 
H.,  and  of  him  the  King  once  said,  "I 
must  go  and  have  Ken  tell  me  my  faults." 
Bishop  Ken  was  a  fine  musician,  and  used  to 


inent"  inspired  hymn- writers,  in  the  same 
way  that  the  revival  of  Wesley's  time  had, 
a  hundred  years  before. 

John  Keble  and  Frederick  William  Faber 
were  both  influenced  by  the  earnest  thought 
of  that  time,  and  went  separate  ways; 
Keble  remaining  in  the  Church  of  England 
and   Faber  going  to  the  Church  of   Rome. 

John  Keble's  father  was  a  clergyman  of 
the  Church  of  England.  The  son  was  sent 
to  Oxford  and  was  graduated  from  Corpus 
Christi  College  in  1810.  He  was  a  bril- 
liant scholar  and  honors  poured  upon  him. 


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SOME  FAMOUS  HYMNS  AND  THEIR  AUTHORS. 


He  was  ordained, 
and  later  succeeded 
his  father  as  Vicar 
of  Fairford.  He  was 
a  great  friend  of 
Cardinal  Newman's, 
and  to  a  certain  point 
they  held  the  same 
religious  views. 

Keble's  life  was 
less  stormy  and  event- 
ful than  Faber's,  and 
in  the  quiet  of  an 
English  vicarage  he 
wrote  "The  Chris- 
tian Year,"  which 
immediately  became 
the  most  popular  de- 
votional book.  It  is 
a  curious  fact  that 
Keble  lived  to  revise 
the  ninety-si.xth  edi- 
tion.     In    this    book 


JOSEPH    ADDISON,    AUTHOR    OK     IBE  SPACIOUS 
FIRMAMENr    ON    HIGH." 


made  a  tour  of  the 
Continent,  and  be- 
came much  interested 
in  the  Roman  Cath- 
olic Church,  and  early 
after  his  return  he 
announced  to  his 
congregation  his  in- 
tention of  becominji 
a  Roman  Catholic, 
and  was  soon  a  priest 
of  that  chuich.  His 
hymns  are  extremely 
devotional. 

Another  beautiful 
liymn  was  indirectly 
the  outcome  of  that 
same  time.  "Lead, 
Kindly  Light,  Amid 
the  Encircling 
Gloom,"  was  written 
by  John  Henry  New- 
man short Iv  before  be 


are  hymns  for  all  the  seasons  and  days  of  entered    the   Roman   Catholic   Church,   and 

the  year.     Among  Keble's  hymns  found  in  it  undoubtedly  voiced   his  own  longing  for 

most  hymnals  are:  light  to  lead  him  on. 

"Sun  of  my  soul,  Thou  Savior  dear,"  "^^  ^^"^  ^^en    in  Italy  and  was  returning 
and    the    wed- 
ding hymn. 


"The  voice  that 
breathed  o'er 
Eden." 
Frederick 
William  Faber 
wasalso  theson 
of  a  Church 
of  England 
clergy  in  a  n . 
He  was  a  Bal- 
liol  College 
man  at  Ox- 
ford, and  was 
graduated  with 
high  honors. 
While  at  O.x- 
ford  he  came 
under  the  in- 
fluence of  John 
Henry  New- 
man. After 
his  ordination 
as  priest  in 
the  Church  of 
England,       he 


HISTIOl'    lvl;N,     AinilOK    OK    TIIK,    DOXOLOCV. 


to  England. 
After  a  stormy 
time  in  the 
Mediterranean, 
the  ship  was 
becalmed  for  a 
week  and  it 
was  there  that 
lu^  wrote  this 
liynin. 

Tliis  hymn 
is  a  favorite  at 
seances  and  the 
spiritualists 
sing  it  with 
great  fervor, 
em  phasiz i  ng 
the  two  lines: 

"And  with  the 
morn  those  angel 
faces  smile, 

Which  I  have 
loved  long  since 
and  lost  awhile." 

The  writer 
of  "Nearer, 
My    God,     to 


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327 


JOHN    H.    NEWMAN,    AUTHOK    OK 
LIGHT.  " 


LEAU,  KINDLV 


Thee,"  Sarah  Francis  Adams,  is  one  of  the 
few  women  who  have  written  hymns.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  a  Benjamin  Flower, 
who  was  the  editor  of  a  newspaper  in  Cam- 
bridge, England.  Mrs.  Adams  was  a  Uni- 
tarian, and  her  pastor  in  London  was  the 
Rev.  William  Johnson  Fox.  He  eompiled 
a  volume  of  hymns  and  anthems  to  which 
Mrs.  Adams  contributed  thirteen  hymns, 
and  her  sister  sixty-two  tunes.  Mrs. 
Adams'  life  was  given  up  largely  to  the 
care  of  an  invalid  sister,  whom  she  survived 
only  two  years. 

A  grand  hymn  is  that  one  for  Palm 
Sunday  by  Tteginald  Heber  : 

"Ride  on,  ride  on,  in  majesty, 
In  lowly  pomp  ride  on  to  die." 

Bishop  Ileber  was  one  of  the  first 
bishops  that  the  English  Church  sent  to 
India,  and  he  is  said  to  have  baptized  the 
first  native.  He  was  born  in  1783  and 
was  a  graduate  from  Brasenose  College, 
Oxford.  His  was  a  beautiful  chnracter, 
and  he  died  at  his  post  from  the  ellect 
of  the  heat  in  India.  His  liymns  are 
among  the  treasures  of  hymnology.  His 
life  in  the  East  gave  to  his  writing  Ori- 
ental imagery,  and  one  can  almost  see  the 


tall  palms  and  smell  the  cinnamon-groves. 

Heber  wrote  "From  Greenland's  Icy 
Mountains"  in  England.  He  was  spend- 
ing Sunday  with  a  fellow  clergyman;  a 
special  offering  had  been  asked  for  missions 
and  his  friend  begged  him  to  write  some- 
thing for  the  dav.  Heber  sat  overlookin<j 
a  peaceful  English  landscape  and  wrote  that 
famous  hymn,  which  has  been  translated 
into  more  languages  than  any  other. 

The  Rev.  Henry  Francis  Lyte  wrote 
"Abide  With  Me,"  under  most  pathetic 
circumstances.  He  was  a  curate  of  a 
church  on  the  Devonshire  coast  of  England. 
He  was  very  ill  with  consumption  and  the 
care  of  his  parish  was  a  trying  burden. 
It  was  said  of  him  that  "he  made  hymns 
for  the  little  ones,  hymns  for  the  hardy 
fishermen,  and  hymns  for  the  sufferers  like 
himself."  Ill  health  compelled  him  to 
leave  his  parish,  and,  after  a  touching  serv- 
ice with  his  people,  he  dragged  himself 
to  his  room,  and  in  a  few  hours  had  writ- 
ten the  hymn : 
"Abide  with  me,  fast  falls  the  eventide. 

The  darkness  deepens,  Lord,  with  me  abide  " 


F.    W.    FABEK,    ADTHOR    OI"    '    O    1'AKADISe!    O 

paradise'.  " 


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SOME  FAMOUS  HYMNS  AND  THEIR  AUTHORS. 


He  was  taken  to  the  south  of  France 
and  in  a  few  months  died.  His  grave  is 
in  the  cemetery  at  Nice,  and  many  trav- 
elers go  there  to  place  flowers  upon  it,  in 
memory  of  his  brave  and  sad  young  life. 

Among  the  hymns  by  Lyte  are: 

"Jesus,  I  my  Cross  have  taken, 
All  to  leave  and  follow  Thee." 
"Pleasant  are  Thy  courts  above." 
"Far  from  my  Heavenly  home.  ' 

Conspicuous  among  men  who  have  been 
great  in  other  tields  of  literature  and  have 
also  written  hymns,  is  Addison.  When 
he    was    writing    for    the    "Spectator,"'  lie 


Knowing  the  sadness  of  his  life,  one 
understands  his  hymns  much  better.  It  is 
said  that  during  an  attack  of  melancholy 
he  decided  he  would  kill  himself.  He 
was  to  drive  to  a  certain  spot,  but,  the 
driver  failing  to  find  it.  he  was  diverted 
from  his  purpose  and  on  his  return  to  his 
home  he  wrote : 

"God  moves  in  a  mysterious  way 
His  wonders  to  perform.' 

Other  hymns  by  Cowpcr  are: 

"Oh.  for  a  closer  walk  with  God, 
A  calm  and  heavenly  frame." 
"There  is  a  fountain  filled  with  blood." 
Alexander     Pope    wrote     that     stirring 
hymn : 

"Rise,  crowned  with  light,  imperial  Salem,  rise, 
Exalt  thy  towering  head  and  lift  thine  eyes. 
See  Heaven  its  sparkling  portals  wide  display, 
And  break  upon  thee  in  a  flood  of  day." 


PARISH    cm  KCH    \l    IIKIXIIAM,    OF    WHICH    HENRY    FRANCIS    LVTK    WAS   CURAIE. 


contributed  religious  poems  week  by  week, 
and  of  these  several  are  classics  in  our 
hymnals  to-day.  The  first  is  that  glorious 
hymn,  "The  Spacious  Firmament  on  High.  " 
Another  hymn  of  Addison's  is  "The  Lord 
My  Pasture  Siiall  Prepare." 

Poor,  melancholy,  mad  Cowper,  whose 
soul  was  so  tortured  with  religious  fears  and 
doubts,  wrote  many  hymns.  It  was  a  life  of 
misery  with  occasional  gleams  of  sanity, 
when  he  would  enjoy  life  and  the  friendship 
of  those  to  whom  he  was  always  so  dear. 


Tom  Moore,  the  writer  of  love-songs  and 
Irieiid  of  Byron,  wrote  thirty-five  religious 
])()('ms,  which  proves  he  was  surely  a  man 
of  contradictory  genius.  That  old  favorite 
in  all  hymnals  was  written  by  him: 

"Come,  ye  disconsolate,  where'er  ye  languish." 

There  have  been  many  contributions  to 
hymnology  within  the  last  fifty  years  by 
American  writers,  so  large  a  number  that 
it  is  impossible  to  mention  them  within  the 
scope  of  this  article. 


